By Lloyd Page, Peter Cronin and Steve Hardy We were so excited to be going to Birmingham on the 14th September. We arrived at London...

By Sunny Sokhal Today is the first day of ‘Learning disability awareness week’. During this week we are celebrating people with learning...

On Wednesday 11th May I and Steve Hardy were invited to give a presentation at Advocacy for All ‘Big Mental Health Day’. We also had a...

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Paul McCluskey Peer Support Worker / Expert By Experience Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Firstly, what an amazing weekend! As...

I have the absolute pleasure of reviewing ‘I Love Natty’ a book by my friends Mia and Hayley Goleniowska from Downs Side Up. This is a...

In 2017 the ‘Can You Understand It?’ team of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust held a conference in London. As a result of this conference we...

Thank you for letting me write this blog. It’s been a very long and difficult time for everyone. We never have heard of covid eighteen...

I first met Barry in a bungalow in Maidstone in late 1989 (I feel so old now!). Barry lived with four other people, who all had learning...

By Sunny Sokhal, self-advocate I am writing this story about me having coronavirus from the 8th of January. My symptoms got worse by each...

There was an article in the December 2020 issue of ‘Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability’ newsletter!

I met Fatima at a Share Community in Clapham self-advocate meeting. Matthew and I were there to interview the group about what lessons...

You have probably heard of bipolar disorder and have some understanding of what it is. I was quite shocked when I looked up some...

Matthew was interviewed by the British Journal of Occupational Therapy about the new publication ‘Peter and friends experience of...

This is a short video from the launch of 'Peter and friends experience of covid-19: for people with intellectual or learning disabilities...

Thanks to Chris Walker, editor of ‘Learning Disability Practice’. I’ve published in it many times and will continue. It’s a great...

Do people with learning disabilities who live independently have the capacity to decide to share a bedroom on holiday? Is it 1989 or 2020?

Well #OTweek2020 has ended. I just wanted to review a couple of things we did. Here is a description of what an #OT does: Occupational...

I had the privilege of working the lovely Gemma from the Nursing Times. Heres her news report on our new publication. BJOT, BILD and...